Posted on 01/27/2010 5:48:13 AM PST by mattstat
There’s no point in accusing me, because I admit it. I picked up the book because I saw “Garibaldi’s” face on the cover. I can’t imagine you not knowing, but on the diminishingly slight chance you don’t, Jerry Doyle was the sparsely coiffed, hard-bitten security chief with a Daffy Duck fetish on the sci-fi series Babylon 5.
And if you haven’t heard of Babylon 5, there’s no hope for you.
I have convinced myself that I bought Doyle’s book because he smokes. (Dear Health Zealot: I do not.) Yes, and he wants to be left alone about it. To which I say, amen, brother.
The government’s position, Doyle says, is “Love the sin, hate the sinner.” Tobacco taxes are punitively high, ostensibly to discourage smoking. But the fees from the taxes are shunted to various health programs for kids, like SCHIP. Those programs would be hurting were it not for the taxes.
SCHIP, incidentally, is yet another government program, this one to provide health care to “poor” kids. It’s funded, in large part, by tobacco taxes. The key word is poor. It used to mean “below the poverty level.” It now means three hundred percent above the poverty line, an already high number. And it no longer means just kids. It also…but have you ever heard of a bureaucracy that hasn’t inexorably grown?
Doyle started his life the hard way, being left at...
(Excerpt) Read more at wmbriggs.com ...
This is going on my library list. Jerry Doyle is HOT.
Garibaldi was one of the great characters on television.
Babylon 5? Whazzat?
I love his voice.
Best series on television ever in my opinion.
Go to KDWN and you can listen to Jerry Doyle online.
Obama is great at asking "What do you want?" like the Morden and the Shadows. Oooo, free stuff with all sorts of poisonous strings attached. Add on top of that Obama's Nightwatch-like request for people to report those who expressed doubts about Obamacare to the White House email address flag@whitehouse.gov.
He’s like Bruce Willis, only far more alert. When I hear Bruce Willis, I think, “Why is Jerry Doyle using that dead, boring voice?”
New rule? :p
Vir had the best answer for Morden.
It would be nice, but it took us, what, four years to get the Bibi rule even partially assimilated ...
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